Flathead catshark

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Flathead catshark
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Conservation status
Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Subclass: Elasmobranchii Order: Carcharhiniformes Family: Scyliorhinidae Genus: Apristurus Species: A. macrorhynchus
Binomial name
Apristurus macrorhynchus (Tanaka, 1909)

The flathead catshark, Apristurus macrorhynchus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae in the order Carcharhiniformes, found in deep water in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Its length is up to 66 cm.

The flathead catshark is a little-known deepwater bottom shark. It is dark coloured with a long flattened snout with prominent nostrils and unusual gill slits that leave the tips of the gill filaments exposed.

The flathead catshark is oviparous with one egg per oviduct.

[edit] See also

• List of sharks

[edit] References

• "Apristurus macrorhynchus". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. May 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.